Welcome to the Evils of Physics or the Bizarreness of MHC

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There are Ethernet jacks in the ceiling of the atrium.
The lights in several of the classrooms and all of the bathrooms are motion-sensing, and will go off if they do not sense movement. Since most of my professors don’t move that much while they lecture, and the students don’t move much while they are taking notes, the lights have been known to go off in the middle of class. This results in my professors waving their arms frantically in the general direction of the ceiling to turn the lights back on while the rest of us laugh our heads off.
The I-beams in the walls are magnetized. In other words, put your computer near some of the walls, and it does really weird things. And the remodeled Blanchard will be the same way, because the same contractor is doing both buildings.
The extra wall outlets in the labs are so high on the walls that only the tallest people can reach them.
The building has a coffee bar. But thanks to dining services’ objections, it has not yet been opened. Instead, there are vending machines. The coffee machine was not plugged in until a week before finals and still does not work. Yup, certainly don’t need a coffee bar here. We can just destroy the useless coffee machine to keep ourselves awake.